I'm surrounded by stuff. As I'm sure you are too.
If I look around my room I am certain that I will see at least 18 things that I don't need anymore. Either a book I haven't read in 2 years, or a shirt that I now hate.
Yet I always buy more and more, trying to fill a void because as a human, I am programmed to lose interest in things once I see something better.
I need to de-clutter my life, which I find amusing because I've been trying to do so for the last year or so now. But I've taken the wrong approach to it. When I think of de-cluttering my life, and home, I think of getting rid of things that I don't like anymore, when I should be thinking that I should be getting rid of the things that I don't need anymore.
Which is what I am going to do. Although it probably will be hard to try and explain to my parents why I'm suddenly finding better homes for most of my things.
Now I am certainly not going to go crazy and only have 10 things in my bedroom. No. I'm going to start small.
Maybe getting rid of the books I don't read anymore, or maybe throwing away the posters on my walls which I now have come to hate.
I'm not going to become an extreme minimalist, but I don't want to hoard things I don't need either.
I need to keep moving forward.
I need a fresh start, away from the idea that things complete me. I need to be enough.
Instead of filling myself with things I want to fill it with experiences.
And I hope you do to.
Now, for real, see you in 2017.
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